NoIndex Paginated Pages Not Working

Hello,

Thank you for contacting Rank Math support and we apologize for the inconvenience.

First of all, please make sure that the Noindex Paginated Single Pages and Noindex Subpages options in Rank Math > Titles & Meta are enabled.

If you have enabled these options and cleared your website and server cache, but you still see the index tag on your page source code, then there could be another plugin or your theme that is causing a conflict with Rank Math. To check for plugin conflicts, please follow these steps:

• First of all, please make sure that you have the latest versions of Rank Math and your theme and other plugins installed on your website. If not, please update them as soon as possible.
• Follow this guide to check for plugin conflicts: https://rankmath.com/kb/check-plugin-conflicts/
• Watch this video to see how it’s done: https://www.youtube.com/embed/FcIWRhcUP2c

If the issue is still there:

• Edit your first post on this ticket and add your WordPress and FTP login details in the Sensitive Data section at the bottom. This is a secure area that only our support team can access. You can also use this plugin to create a temporary login link and share it with us: https://wordpress.org/plugins/temporary-login-without-password/
• You can also use this plugin to keep track of any changes we might make on your website (if needed): https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-security-audit-log/

Before you share any information with us, please make sure you have a full backup of your website. This is very important in case something goes wrong.

We look forward to helping you troubleshoot this issue.

Hello,

The screenshot you have shared is for your homepage, that’s why it is showing as index.

Upon checking your pagination URLs, they are already set to noindex. Please refer to the screenshot attached in the sensitive data section.

Hope that helps.

Thank you.

Hello,

Thank you for sharing more details about this issue.

If your paginated pages were already indexed, then it would take time for them to get removed from the search results pages.

In this case, you may need to give Google some time to recrawl your site and remove those links.

Unfortunately, there’s no definite time for Google to recrawl your site.

According to Google guidelines, crawling can take anywhere from a few days to a few weeks. The crawling and indexing of the website depend on the authority and crawl budget of the website.

Hope that helps.

Thank you.

Hello,

We are super happy that this resolved your issue. If you have any other questions in the future, know that we are here to help you.

If you don’t mind me asking, could you please leave us a review (if you haven’t already) on https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/seo-by-rank-math/reviews/#new-post about your overall experience with Rank Math? We appreciate your time and patience.

If you do have another question in the future, please feel free to create a new forum topic, and it will be our pleasure to assist you again.

Thank you.